ABSTRACT
As the level of home ownership in Great Britain has grown from 10% at the beginning of the 1914–1918 War to the 80% of today, so have the grumbles about the systems (both north and south of the border between England and Scotland) of buying and selling dwellings. Between the two World Wars from 1919–1939, the growth had come about because of the decline in the building of new dwellings for rent, due mainly to control on the amount that could be charged, together with the availability of new houses for sale in the suburbs along with the mortgages that made their purchase possible. Although there might have been a few complaints about poor construction which resulted in some of the larger builders forming the National House Building Council and offering a guarantee, most were only too delighted with their move and had little to grumble about. After all, repayments were often less than the rents charged for inferior accommodation available nearer the city centres, jobs were available on the new industrial estates and the public transport of the time worked. The idea of having a survey never arose.
